The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-03-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

| PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER died at
Brooklyn, N. Y, at $50 on the morning of
the Sth. He was attended by most of his
near relatives and few friends and passed
quietly away. He was UNCONSCIOUS to the
last
| ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ARTHUK MACARTHUR,
OF the Supreme Court Of the District OF
Columbia, has resigned He has been on
the bench for seventeen years.
THE French Chamber of Deputies re-
jected by vote of 654 against Isl motion
to abolish all duties on cereals.
VlCE-CoSsUL KNIGHT reports from the
Transvaal, Africa, the discovery of fresh
| gold fields, Of exceeding richness.
LIEUTENANT GCTTTEREz, who commanded
the Mexican soldiers who were engage in
| the recent shooting affair with Americans
was captured at Buena Vista, nine miles
from Nogales, Ariz., by party sent in pur-
suit by the Mexican authorities. 1t was
believed that Guitterez would be turned
over to the United States authorities.
GEORGE G.. SICKLEs, father Of General
Daniel z. Sickles, died in New York City
on the 9Th.
WILLIAM d. HICKMAN has left Boston for
Canada with $4,000 belonging to Boston
capitalists, who loaned him the money to
make '1sugarine'' from starch.
The Russian Ambassador and the French
charge d'affaires at Constantinople have
made joint protest against the execution
Of the Bulgarian rebels.
RUMoRs were prevalent in Washington
that Congress would be called to meet in
October instead of in December as usual
THE Septennate bill was passed in the Ger
man Reichstag by 222 to %, eighty eight
members abstaining from voting.
ANOTHER attempt to pass a militia bill
was defeated in the Missouri House on the
9Th
THE Limerick assizes have been ad-
journed, no convictions being possible.
BISHOP ALFRED LEE, the senior Bishop of
the Episcopal Church in the United Sta ,es,
was reported dying at Wilmington, Del,
on the 9Th.
THE Canadian Minister of Customs de-
nies officially that he has ever said that the
Dominion Government was preparing Re-
taliatOry bill.
THE London Times publishes dispatch
from Vienna positively affirming that the
alliance between Italy and Germany and
Austria has been renewed, but for three in
stead of five years.
IT was reported that the Sultan of Mo
between Tangiers and Gibraltar.
SAMUEL SMITH, a sixteen year-old boy
of Lawrence County, KY, the other day
shot and killed Stephen Hammond, fatally
wounded Hammond's wife and seriously
and perhaps fatally wounded their two
children. Smith then fed to the noun
tains.
Mrs. LUCY Parsons, the Chicago female
anarchist lOclyad nm in COl11mhuc n
recently for abusing the mayor, who had
refused her permit for hall.
THE Dukes of Westminster and Argyle
have withdrawn from the honorary council
of the American exhibition, having discov-
cred that it was private speculation.
COMMISSIONER COLMAN, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, has appointed Prof. J.
X. Dodge, Statistician of the Department,
as Official delegate from the United States
to the International Statistical Institute,
which is to meet in Rome next April.
TIE President has appointed Charlton h.
Way. of Georgia, to be Consul General of
the United States at St Petersburg.
PROPOSED female suffrage has been re-
jected by the Maine Legislature.
CHRISTINE NILSSON has been married to
Count Miranda and it is reported that she
will retire from the lyric stage.
SERVICES over the remains of Henry Ward
Beecher were held at his late residence on
the 10th, after which the body was taken to
Plymouth Church, where l. was to lie in
state until finally disposed OF.
CAPTAIN JAMES B. EADs. the celebrated
engineer who built the st. Louis bridge and
the jetties at New Orleans, died at Nassau.
in the Bahamas, March S, from congestion
of the lungs. He was born at Lawrence
burg, Ind, May %, 1920.
D. LYNCH PRINGLE, of South Carolina,
has been sent as Consul General to Con-
stantinople.
THE case of Smith against Robertson to
determine the question of the disputed
Lieutenant Governorship of Indiana was
finally settled, so far as the courts are con-
cerned, when the Supreme Court denied
Smiths petition for rehearing. The court
holds in effect that the General Assembly
is the only tribunal competent to pass upon
the question.